2010 buzz:

Dozens of fans jumped on e-mail in early February to tell us that one of the characters in the popular CBS series NCIS mentioned having attended a Talk Like A Pirate Day Party (in Masquerade, originally aired Feb. 1, 2010).

Fan Sarah L. reports "I have just taken down my new 2010 Simpsons Fun Calendar, to add in
Talk Like a Pirate Day, and found it is already printed on the
calendar! Hooray!"

Eric Swirsky spotted a reference to ITLAPD on a Nantucket Nectars bottlecap liner!

2009 buzz:

The morning of International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009, "pirate day" was the no. 1 trending topic on Twitter, and half the top 10 was pirate-related:

10. Burnley

9. Good Morning

8. #iranelection

7. Avast

6. Jennifer's Body

5. Ahoy

4. Talk Like a Pirate

3. Selemat Hari Raya

2. Jay-Z

1. Pirate Day

Major media covering the day in 2009, with interviews from the Pirate Guys, included

It seems the founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day have somehow become Legitimate News Sources. At least the venerable Wall Street Journal seems to think so when they called - and quoted - Cap'n Slappy back in April for a front-page story about Somali Pirates.

Speakin' of Talk Like A Pirate Day turning up in odd places, by Ol' Chumbucket's count the holiday has been featured in:

We're everywhere: International Talk Like A Pirate Day
has truly entered the mass media lexicon. Practically every media reference
to the 2007 "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie mentioned the holiday,
numerous museums around the US referred to TLAPD as part of a rash of
pirate exhibits, we're informally affiliated with pirate festivals all
over the world, and we get new Google Alerts to TLAPD references in the
news weekly. Here are just a few of the latest media hits:

A fan reports that in a Sept. 18 concert at New York City's Madison Square
Garden, Jimmy Buffett acknowledged "Talk Like A Pirate Day"
several times, followed by a few, "Arrrghs!"

On the Sept. 19 Today Show, Our Close Personal Friend (And Pulitzer Prize-Winner)
Dave Barry, appearing to talk about his new book, Dave Barry's History
of the Millennium (So Far).got
host Al Roker to talk like a pirate. Later in the day, on
NPR's Talk of the Nation, he and host Neal Conan talked like pirates
for a bit, too. We can always count on Dave.

Craig Ferguson opened
his Sept. 19 Late Late Show by announcing it was a great day for America
- because it was Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Fox & Friends
(on Fox News) opened their Sept. 19 broadcast with a mention of "National
Talk Like a Pirate Day" complete with a voice over doing an "Arrr
Mates!"

NPR's Morning Edition and Day to Day programs both mentioned TLAPD
on Sept. 19.

Fox 4 News in Kansas City TLAPD ontheir No. 1-rated morning news
show. Meterologist, Don Harman, dressed up as a pirate and reported
on the schools in the area who have pirate mascots. "We played
pirate songs on the show and generally just laughed ourselves silly.
See
the video.

The Sept. 19 morning show on the Stealth, KNMZ-FM, 103.7 in Alamogordo,
New Mexico was all pirate, all the time.

Ol' Chumbucket is beside himself with word-geeky glee: He
was invited to serve as guest "editor" for theTalk Like A Pirate
week edition of A
Word A Day. Subscribers can expect pirate
vocabulary-builders in their e-mail boxes all week...

Both Amazon.com
and CafePress.com
are featuring Talk Like A Pirate Day in their September promotional mailings!
Arrrrrr!

Long John Silver's restaurant chain once again observes
Talk Like A Pirate Day. Get a free pirate hat with yer
meal on the 19th and visit
their Web site for pirate fun.

Pirates on TV: PinchyLobster, a new media-related site,
has rounded up a list of all the pirate-related TV programming they can
find in the days leading up to Sept. 19 - including the ABC Wench
Swap episode!. Check
out their list (warning: dark text on a black background may be hard
to read; try highlighting the page to see what it says)

iTom,
Tom Smith's Song-A-Week Blog - The world's fastest filker, and the
guy who wrote the official Talk Like A Pirate Day song, has a new tune
for TLAPD 2006. Don't miss "Hey, It's Can(n)on," based on
the little-known fact that Hermione Grainger was born on Sept. 19!

The
Skwib - plans a whole week o' piratical posts, startin' with a lecture
from Billy Bones at Pirate University.

The group blog Pererro will
observe Talk Like a Pirate Day not only as part of their daily column
"Today is...", but also by having their very own Pererro Pirate
(also known as Capt'n Pererro) officate posts for the day.

Another
quoteworthy item from The Oregonian:"Aarrr! Hoist the
Jolly Roger and salute as Oregon's own "Talk Like a Pirate"
guys get another blast of national attention. You'll be recallin' that
Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy are the Albany duo who invented International
Talk Like a Pirate Day ... the pirate gospel will be spread even further
when Chumbucket -- aka John Baur -- and his wife, Tori "Mad Sally"
Baur, are featured on the ABC series "Wife Swap."... come
8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18. Which is, conveniently enough, one day before
International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Be there -- or be a bilge rat!"

July-September: With the release of Disney's second
Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the reviewers and pundits who've just
figured out that, hey, pirates are cool couldn't seem to help
mentioning our favorite holiday. Check these reviews:

Alberquerque
(NM) Tribune ("The "Pirates of the Caribbean"
franchise is just a portion of this perfect cultural storm, the best
of which is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept. 19), one of
the most brilliant phenomena in forever.")

The Oregonian"Here,
on the deceptively peaceful banks of the Willamette, pirates roam among
us all year long. Some pursue gold. Others slam back grog with 18th-century
gusto. Still others belt out sea chanteys in nightclubs or on street
corners. Where you or I might say, "Have a nice day," they're
likely to bellow, "Fair winds, and thanks fer yer foine pirattitude!"

Film Australia:
" Speaking as a previous owner and bathtub mariner of the Playmobil
pirate ship and accessories, I can tell you that there’s a certain
dilated escapism that comes with all things pirate-ised; a fond response
that adventure on the high seas and its related skulduggery elicits
in people. And it’s not just me: notably, check www.talklikeapirate.com
for latest updates on International Talk Like a Pirate Day, purchase
a book on ‘Pirattitude’, or (worryingly) play Buccaneer
Bachelor. But despite this, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black
Pearl was, in some ways, a curio as much as it was a box office event...
"